If you are the landowner, tenant or mortgagee of a property that is expropriated in Ontario, you may have the right to claim one or more of four different types of compensation in exchange for the expropriated land.

Ultimately, under the Expropriations Act, “repairing the injury” to landowners and other stakeholders, including tenants affected by an expropriation is done by compensating them with a fair market value for the property being expropriated.

The Expropriations Act of Ontario says that, once an expropriation plan has been registered, the registered owner of the property may elect to have the compensation assessed on one of the following dates: